Watch on the Rhine

Drama, Thriller

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Herman Shumlin

Status Released

Release Date 1943-08-27

Storyline

On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years, visit Sara's wealthy mother near Washington, DC. Kurt secretly works for the anti-Nazi resistance. A visiting Romanian count, becoming aware of this, seeks to blackmail him.

"On her lonesome lips a smile."